Dignitatis Humanae vs. The Catholic Church

Vatican II was a non-dogmatic pastoral Council that was infiltrated by Communists, subverted by Freemasons, influenced by Protestants, and steered by Modernists. Many of its documents contain good elements, but drops of poison are to be found throughout. But then there are documents such as Dignitatis Humanae, which is a bottle of poison being poured all over.

Many have tried to synchronize this disastrous declaration with Tradition, but ultimately to no avail. We must call a spade of spades for what it is. Dignitatis Humanae is the French Revolution of the Counter Church, which effectively emerged from its gestation at the Council. It is now presently in its growth stage with the Francis Synods. If one ever takes the time to read the Alta Vendita, they will see its fruit born in this document.

The Church traditionally had opposed freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of press, and separation of Church and State (all Freemasonic, and, consequently, Protestant ideals). But in one fell swoop, Dignitatis Humanae explicitly champions all these corrupt concepts.

Cardinal Suenens, an active accomplice, notably remarked, “Vatican II is the French Revolution in the Church… One cannot understand the French or the Russian revolutions unless one knows something of the old regimes which they brought to an end… It is the same in church affairs: a reaction can only be judged in relation to the state of things that preceded it.” He went on to admit, without scruple, “The Second Vatican Council marked the end of an epoch; and if we stand back from it a little more we see it marked the end of a series of epochs, the end of an age.”

Fr. Yves Congar, a Modernist who was enlisted as an “expert” for the Council, unashamedly pronounced, “The Church has had, peacefully, its October Revolution… “The Declaration on Religious Liberty is the Counter Syllabus.” He is referencing the Syllabus of Errors, authoritatively bound to the Church by His Holiness Pope Pius IX. Congar had been forbidden to publish books or teach in 1954 by Pope Pius XII because of the numerous heresies he promoted. But then John XXIII was elected Pope, the Second Vatican Council was initiated, and Congar was restored to a place of theological prominence. His errors became the blueprints for the documents of Vatican II.

I am going to cite the direct citations from Dignitatis Humanae, the Declaration of the Dignity of Man and of Religious Liberty, followed by the appropriate statements of the Popes preceding the Council who vigorously opposed Modernism.

Dignitatis Humanae:

"This Vatican synod declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom... no one should be forced to act against his conscience in religious matters, nor prevented from acting according to his conscience, whether in private or in public... this right to non-interference persists even in those who do not carry out their obligations of seeking the truth and standing by it; and the exercise of this right should not be curtailed."

This was Vatican II teaching freedom of religion.

Condemned Propositions in the Syllabus of Errors, 1864, Pius IX:

"In this age of ours it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all other cults whatsoever."

"Hence in certain regions of Catholic name, it has been laudably sanctioned by law that men immigrating there be allowed to have public exercises of any form of worship of their own."

"The Church is to be separated from the state, and the state from the Church."

Dignitatis Humanae:

"So the state, whose proper purpose it is to provide for the temporal common good, should certainly recognize and promote the religious life of its citizens.  With equal certainty it exceeds the limits of its authority, if it takes upon itself to direct or to prevent religious activity."

It was because of this that after Vatican II, several Catholic nations got rid of their Catholic constitutions and enacted secular ones, because it taught the State should not try to prevent religious activity or direct it. This was the acceptance of Separation of Church and State, which as we saw was condemned in the Syllabus of Errors as well.

Leo XIII, 1888: "Justice therefore forbids, and reason itself forbids, the State to be godless; or to adopt a line of action which would end in godlessness - namely, to treat the various religions (as they call them) alike, and to bestow upon them promiscuously equal rights and privileges. Since, then, the profession of one religion is necessary in the State, that religion must be professed which alone is true."

Pius X, 1906: "We, in accord with the supreme authority which We hold from God, disprove and condemn the established law which separates the French state from the Church, for those reasons which We have set forth: because it inflicts the greatest injury upon God whom it solemnly rejects, declaring in the beginning that the state is devoid of any religious worship."

Dignitatis Humanae:

"In addition, religious communities are entitled to teach and give witness to their faith publicly in speech and writing without hindrance."

This was the Council accepting freedom of speech and press for all religious communities, Catholic or non Catholic.

We see the ideals of Freemasonry championed right smack dab in the midst of a document issued by the Second Vatican Council. Praise God that this Council has no dogmatic binding authority over any Christian. We are, however, bound to give religious assent to the authoritative and binding teachings of Sacred Tradition and the perennial Magisterium.

Pray for the conversion of all those compromised by Modernism.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. We love you. Save souls. Amen.